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  • Workers inspect the propellers of the  Titanic in dry dock in 1916.

    Harland & Wolff
    Struggles at Belfast’s Titanic shipyard reflect UK’s faded naval power

    Attempts by Harland & Wolff to restore the city’s industrial prowess could be dashed as the new government beds in, but the firm is already in choppy waters elsewhere
  • Man wearing helmet holding piece of metal

    Tata Steel
    UK will press for job promises in return for Port Talbot investment

  • Gulu Town<br>Since 2006 Northern Uganda is quite peaceful. Former war-torn area around Gulu develops well and people stay out after dark and enjoy nightlife. Gulu is becoming the second largest town of Uganda.

    Meet Mercy and Anita
    The African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour

    Social media content and AI training data are processed in outsource centres in the global south, where long hours, low pay and exposure to disturbing material are the norm
    • Red aircraft at night on the tarmac

      Royal Mail
      Company presses ahead with cuts to UK flights despite takeover

    • Ukraine
      UK urged to protect Kyiv from legal action over private debt default

    • Tax and spending
      HMRC withheld offshore tax avoidance figures for UK’s wealthy during election

    • Jonathan Reynolds
      Business secretary rushed on to Sunday politics shows

    • Business secretary
      Thames, Tata, Shein – Jonathan Reynolds has an overflowing in-tray

    • Timpson CEO
      Penal reform experts welcome prisons minister role for shoe repair boss

    • Politics
      Former Tory minister may become Labour’s ‘planning tsar’

    • Labour
      Starmer installs non-political ministers in ‘government of all the talents’

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Opinion & analysis

  • Gwyneth Paltrow as Helen Quilley in the film Sliding Doors

    Of the economy’s two possible endings the happy one is slightly more likely

    Larry Elliott
  • Medium-distance shot of Keir and Victoria Starmer greeting crowds on the pavement of Downing Street, many of whom are waving union jacks

    Keir Starmer ruled out rejoining the EU. Now he must think again

    William Keegan
  • Construction workers on a a high scaffold

    Houses and pylons: Labour’s biggest business challenges

    Nils Pratley
  • Keir Starmer outside No 10

    I’m hungry, cold and have multiple disabilities. Does Starmer’s promise of real change include me?

    Marie
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Spotlight

  • Thieves use vulnerable man to take out £28,000 bank loan

    ‘It’s very troubling’
    Thieves use vulnerable man to take out £28,000 bank loan

    Metro Bank faces questions over safeguards and why victim was allowed to borrow such a big sum

Multimedia

  • 'Our work is urgent, we begin it today'
    Keir Starmer makes first speech as prime minister

  •  Outgoing British prime minister says he will step down as Conservative leader after a successor is put in place

    4:24

    ‘I’m sorry’
    Rishi Sunak’s final speech as prime minister in full

    Outgoing British prime minister says he will step down as Conservative leader after a successor is put in place
  • Former Tory prime minister Liz Truss loses her seat to Labour

    0:47

    Politics
    Moment former Tory prime minister Liz Truss loses her seat to Labour

    Former Tory prime minister Liz Truss loses her seat to Labour
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  • Taylor Swift performs on stage at Wembley Stadium

    VIP Taylor Swift ticket holders get obstructed view – are pricey packages worth the cash?

  • A high street studio in fashionable Peckham, London.

    Homes under £350,000 for first-time buyers in England – in pictures

    • ‘They have you over a barrel’: how scammers, touts and bots took over driving tests

    • Our car was no longer driveable after valet parking at Gatwick

    • Tell us: do you have an outstanding UK university student loan you are struggling to pay off?

    • Sparks fly as M&S says no to a plastic loyalty card

    • Private rents in Great Britain hit record high, data shows

    • A stranger seems to have taken over our address

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